Nitrofreak

Have not been out since the meet and greet, but it sounds like all of you are having some fun, congrats guys !!!

WOW DAD LOOK AT WHAT I CAUGHT !!! Really nice job big guy !!! Congrats to both of you as well, I miss the days when my daughters were like that, enjoy it while you can.

You may be getting structure and cover mixed up, structure is the conture of the bottom, cover is anything on top of structure, in this case cover is what you are trying to fish, standing timber and timber that surrounds the standing timber.

Hey that is what forums are for is it not? discussions and debates on everything? I never said it can't be done, I maybe should clarify what my thought was and see if it makes more sense, fishing smaller, narrower bodies of water, as you had stated ie...reservoirs etc.., may be somewhat easier but not as easy as one would think, it still takes a great amount of effort and searching from shore to find the structure that is productive, a difficult task in itself would you not agree? now that being said, how much more difficult would it be to find a piece of structure from shore that produces lunkers? much more difficult in my opinion, now throw in a large body of water as in this case a lake, still not impossible but the added difficulty has to be considered much greater in my opinion. In my opinion you have to find the structure that lunkers lay claim too, on bigger lakes like the one in this post and like I like to fish, it is rare to find that kind of structure anywhere close enough to shore for someone to find, but come spring and fall, if you can get access to the shallows of these big lakes, lunkers are very much a possibility on a consistent basis at least for a few weeks or a little more. So I am not saying you can not target big fish from shore by any means, I feel it is very difficult to do so on large bodies of water from shore, especially if you are looking for the structure that consistently produces bigger fish.

I have not read his book yet but it looks very interesting, We did cover that in the first post to some degree, since then we have found out that he is shore bound, we were tryng to give him the best suggestions we can for fishing the cover he has available to him from shore. He said that most of the structure is at least 20 yrds off shore, now maybe he is not familure with the terms of cover and structure or he may not be able to reach that far out with his equipment, not really sure. Trying to find productive structure from shore can be hard to say the least, but not impossible, trying to find lunker producing structure from shore, even more difficult IMO.

COOL !!! I would like that, I do not remember if I have ever fished Burke or not, if I did I may have been to little or we were there for a visit, but I have always heard it's good. Thank you for the invite Quanjig, I will get back with you close to the end of the month, I will have my new Seibert Outdoors jigs by then and it sounds like the perfect place to get em wet !!!!

Since you say the gremlins are over abundant there, and you are shore bound, I use a #2 gama offset hook straight shenk inserted into the tube on most of mine, depending on the tube size will determine hook size, depending on the tube diameter I will bend the hook to open just enough to make contact inside of the tube on both sides of the bait, when the fish bite down on the tube it will expose the hook for your hook set. Like this, sorry I am not an artist and my cell phone camera has a focus issue but it gives you the general idea, it makes a great weedless presentation, T-rigged or weightless, I use it weightless.

OH, now you are just pokeing a fishing rod at me, you must know how much I love to fish a jig, not cool Quanjig, not cool LOL !!

You have my contact info, phone, e-mail, facebook, hit me up with some info and I will get rolling with it.

Goodness !!!! How deep is that place anyway? Think of it this way the shallow water may turn into something good for the fishing. When they were working on a dam at one of my camping spots with a private lake my family and I visit, the water level was roughly 6' low, man did it turn on the fishing there !!!...I think that was the time my wife snagged my favorite hat as she was casting and sent it to the other end of the lake. Regaurdless, I hope you are able to get out there by then.

Did my part as well Glenn. Traveler, I knew you were a pretty cool fellow, but what an awesome idea, let me know if there is anything I can do to help !!!!

WOW !!! What a beautiful place you have to fish, first thought in my mind is tubes, amoung the timber I would be looking for something just a little bit different, all of the timber is pretty much vertical from what I can see, but look for timber that has a different angle in all of that stuff, like a 45 degree limb, a jig I would toss right up against the base of the timber and let it fall on a slack line allowing the jig to remain as close to the timber as possible all the way to the bottom, a small spinner bouncing off of the timber changing directions will or should attract attention. No matter the cover, always keep in mind there is still structure the fish will use, look at the outer edges of that standing timber and you will most likely find some sort of creek channel or drop off, get a jig and put it on the edge of that shelf and let it drop over the edge of the channel, if you like worms then do the same with it, small cranks along the edge of that channel should be effective as well. Don't be blinded by the amount of cover or how amazing it looks, structure is always key to how they find and use different variations of cover on any body of water at any given time, so be open minded.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz got one !!! OOOO Fish on !!! Come to papa !!!

Around here they are not heading back out to deeper water yet, they are coming shallow feeding on bait fish back in the coves. Small top water baits like the spook jr, weightless flukes, finess jigs, small swim jigs, small poppers, shakey heads, small crank baits banging into brush piles or off of rocks, small spinners everything works under the right conditions for each. If I had to choose my favorite this time of year, the smaller swim jig would be my go to bait, it's killer around shallow cover.

HEY BIG GUY !!! Thanks for the support, we really appreciate it. Guys and gals, if you have any questions for Mike, go to his website and ask him anything about his product, you won't be disappointed, his jigs are awesome !!! They are like lays potato chips you can't stop at just one !!!

Well wait no longer my friend, cause lookie lookie !!! Ladies and gentelmen attention please, now presenting the long awaited and somewhat overdue photo that we have all been waiting for !!! Here it is for your viewing pleasure, a moment frozen in time, a moment....aawwwwhhh what the crap here is the pic LOL !!! OOOPPSS !!! let me try that again. OH man it still didn't work ! Ok one more time !!! SON OF A !@#$%^&&*&^%$#@! AH HA !!!! I found it Endless !!!! Oh, I guess you want to see it, well, TTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!! hhhhmmmmmm thats a smile? What the heck we'll take it LOL !!!! Congrats Endless on a beautiful bass, really nice job buddy and we hope you had fun !!!

Maybe a little bit of all, I will B.S. with some of my closest friends about the day for sure, still a rookie I will consider myself, I am never done learning and will take the time to watch things, 99% of the time my family is with me, patience, I definatly have, willing to camp out at a store for something, sure, I love camping anyway, so yes the answer is D, all of the above. Kinda like a "corn dog" everything in one meal and shoved on a stick LOL !!

Your quite the prankster huh !! Hey nice job hanging in there and getting them figured out you two !!!!

LMAO !!!! That sounds like me alright, at least thats what I hear from everyone lol !!! LOL , mine just hits me with something.

Thanx Traveler !!!! After your better half hears me snoring she will be ready to have me go home LMAO !!!!

don't listen to him endless he told me only two on the phone LOL !!! Just kidding !!! Seriously though nice job guys those are some really good looking fish !!!!

Endless glad to hear you had a good time buddy !!! This is your first hunting year please be careful and enjoy !!!!

I am in the same boat as you Zoff. Although I need only to walk off my front porch and across the field. But honestly I would rather be fishing.

You spoke of that when we were having a conversation, good luck and if you have any questions let us know, if we can help we will do our best. It's all about family, Steve I am glad to hear you and Aj had a good time, and I loved the pics Traveler took with you and your fish, really nice job and congrats !!!

ALRIGHT !!!!!! It will be good to see you all again !!!!! Good more input on a weekend event thanx Steve !